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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Therapy IS expensive and time-consuming.  Few providers take any form of insurance, and insurance companies are miserly at best in dealing with families facing mental health crises.

Here's the thing: recovery from serious mental illness is a life-long project, one that does not follow a straight line of upward progress, but involves a lot of setbacks and regression.

Have two years of therapy fixed my kid?  I'd never make that claim.  She's alive, despite two suicidal episodes, so there's that.  We know more about what her emotional challenges are, so there's that.  We communicate better as a family, so there's that.[/quote]

I am really happy for you and you DD.  Glad that she is alive and improving. I have studied Psychology and I am sorry to say that I think it is a Pseudo Science.  I now think that good therapists are actually people with great patience and good understanding and listening skills, but that the majority are self inflated quacks. I am glad you found the person who was able to help.[/quote]

Where did you "study" psychology and why would you study it if you think it's pseudo science. You sound incredibly angry. I'd suggest therapy...but I guess that isn't going to happen.[/quote]

Because it is.  Psychiatry is not whereas psychology is subjective and further more, until recently was more of a mysticism than anything resembling a science. Results and methods of psychology can't be scientifically quantifiable and are open to subjective interpretation. Psychology doesn't meet basic requirements of scientific inquiry.  There are five requirements: Clearly defined terminology, quantifiable, controlled experimental conditions, reproducible and testable. I am not angry at all, I studied it and only with studying, I realized that it is all bunch of made up ideas with no scientific base.  How do you define depression, anxiety, it is different from person to person, how do you find a method to treat such anxiety?  Now, psychiatry is a whole different beast since Freud and Jung days, psychology is an angry beast itself full of people who try to prove that it is a science, but that can't be done.

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1) many scientists would disagree with you?

http://www.scilogs.com/from_the_lab_bench/is-psychology-really-science-why-yes-it-is/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/is-psychology-a-e2809creale2809d-science-does-it-really-matter/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/08/19/is-psychology-science-is-the-wrong-question/#.V3Vi9PkrKUk

2) Why does it matter to you if it is or isn't a science? If it's not effective for you, then it's not effective for you.
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